India pushes for new biodiversity fund
2 years ago

India pushes for new biodiversity fund

The Hindu  

There is an urgent need to create a new and dedicated fund to help developing countries successfully implement a post-2020 global framework to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, India has said at the U.N. biodiversity conference in Canada's Montreal. It has also said that conservation of biodiversity must also be based on 'Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities' as climate change also impacts nature. India said the developing countries bear most of the burden of implementing the targets for conservation of biodiversity and, therefore, require adequate funds and technology transfer for this purpose. "Conservation of biodiversity must also be based on Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities as climate change also has an impact on biodiversity," he said.

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India's Biodiversity Focus on Protected Areas and Agrobiodiversity
1 month, 3 weeks ago

India's Biodiversity Focus on Protected Areas and Agrobiodiversity

Hindustan Times  

India has submitted its updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP16 at Cali, Colombia on Thursday. The focus of the plan is on area-based conservation and agrobiodiversity, with a strong emphasis on protecting protected areas and promoting sustainable agricultural practices.

Embracing Nature's Positivity: A Call to Action for a Sustainable Future
2 months ago

Embracing Nature's Positivity: A Call to Action for a Sustainable Future

Times of India  

The article emphasizes the urgency of embracing nature positivity alongside net-zero goals. It highlights the interconnectedness of biodiversity and climate action, emphasizing the need to address both issues together. The article outlines the outcomes of the COP15 summit, including the 23 targets for biodiversity conservation by 2030, which are a vision for a world where nature and humanity coexist harmoniously. …

India Submits 23 National Biodiversity Targets to UN Convention
2 months, 1 week ago

India Submits 23 National Biodiversity Targets to UN Convention

Hindustan Times  

India has submitted its National Biodiversity Targets to be achieved by 2030 to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The 23 targets include measures to conserve 30% of areas of degraded terrestrial, inland water, and marine and coastal ecosystems, ensure participation, justice, and rights for indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth, sustainable consumption choices, and food waste reduction.

France: India’s steady partner in green growth
5 months, 3 weeks ago

France: India’s steady partner in green growth

The Hindu  

On July 14, 2023, in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi elevated the ‘Partnership for the Planet’ as one of the three pillars of the Indo-French Horizon 2047 Roadmap. It also shows a deep convergence of views between France and India: our two countries champion the idea that socioeconomic development and environment protection can go hand and …

Biodiversity-friendly agriculture in India
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Biodiversity-friendly agriculture in India

Hindustan Times  

Resilient and sustainable agriculture relies on thriving, biodiversity-friendly farming. Biodiversity through other ecosystem services like nutrient cycling, nutrient sequestration and conversion, soil water retention, pollination by bees and other wildlife supports the agriculture ecosystem for a sustainable food production. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The FAO projects that the anticipated effects of escalating land-use change, organism exploitation, and the climate crisis …

Improving the language of biodiversity conservation
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Improving the language of biodiversity conservation

The Hindu  

In the midst of a climate emergency, we mark another World Environment Day on Wednesday. Climate links have bolstered biodiversity’s societal values, since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessments that emphasised ecosystem services including carbon sequestration. They wrote that conservation will “remain elusive until there is a clear demonstration of the relevance of biodiversity to people’s well-being.“ Further, “the link between biodiversity …

World not on track to achieve most SDGs by 2030
1 year, 2 months ago

World not on track to achieve most SDGs by 2030

The Hindu  

Lamenting the lack of progress on various Sustainable Development Goals, including biodiversity protection and greenhouse gas emissions, world leaders at the SDG Summit in New York on September 18 and 19, 2023, once again reaffirmed their shared commitment to eradicate poverty and end hunger. They also recognised that the world was on track to meet only 15% of its 169 …

India’s disputed compensatory afforestation policy at odds with new IPCC report
1 year, 9 months ago

India’s disputed compensatory afforestation policy at odds with new IPCC report

The Hindu  

Not degrading existing ecosystems in the first place will do more to lower the impact of the climate crisis than restoring ecosystems that have been destroyed – a finding that speaks to an increasingly contested policy in India that has allowed forests in one part of the country to be cut down and ‘replaced’ with those elsewhere. “We have known …

India can become a biodiversity champion
1 year, 10 months ago

India can become a biodiversity champion

The Hindu  

The sum and variation of our biological wealth, known as biodiversity, is essential to the future of this planet. India currently hosts 17% of the planet’s human population and 17% of the global area in biodiversity hotspots, placing it at the helm to guide the planet in becoming biodiversity champions. The emphasis on green growth is welcome news for India’s …

Team of scientists conduct study to help India meet the 30x30 biodiversity conservation targets
1 year, 10 months ago

Team of scientists conduct study to help India meet the 30x30 biodiversity conservation targets

The Hindu  

A team of scientists across academia, research, policy and conservation NGOs have conducted a prioritisation analysis to help India meet the 30x30 biodiversity conservation targets. In the analysis, scientists and conservation practitioners from 15 Indian and international institutions — including the city-based National Centre for Biological Sciences, Indian Institute for Human Settlements and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and …

Explained | A new global biodiversity framework
2 years ago

Explained | A new global biodiversity framework

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations agreement to conserve and sustainably use earth’s biodiversity, got a boost at a conference held in Montreal recently, when 188 of 196 member governments agreed on a new framework to halt the sharp and steady loss of biological species. It sets out targets for 2030 on protection for …

India hails global nature of COP15 targets
2 years ago

India hails global nature of COP15 targets

Hindustan Times  

India’s strong intervention that ecosystem based approaches should be given their due place in all mitigation processes made a significant contribution to the landmark global biodiversity framework agreed upon on Monday, environment minister Bhupender Yadav said. “The global biodiversity framework sets out to respond to several assessments that provide ample evidence that, despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide at …

Historic biodiversity deal gets the nod at COP15 summit in Canada
2 years ago

Historic biodiversity deal gets the nod at COP15 summit in Canada

The Hindu  

Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world. “We have in our hands a package which I think can guide us as we all work together to halt and reverse biodiversity …

COP15: India calls for new, dedicated fund for biodiversity conservation
2 years ago

COP15: India calls for new, dedicated fund for biodiversity conservation

Firstpost  

There is an urgent need to create a new and dedicated fund to help developing countries successfully implement a post-2020 global framework to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, India has said at the UN biodiversity conference in Canada’s Montreal. New Delhi: There is an urgent need to create a new and dedicated fund to help developing countries successfully implement a …

United Nations biodiversity conference in final days with many issues unresolved
2 years ago

United Nations biodiversity conference in final days with many issues unresolved

Firstpost  

The United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, is set to wrap up Monday in Montreal and delegates were racing to agree on language in a framework that calls for protecting 30 per cent of global land and marine areas by 2030, a goal known as ‘30 by 30’ Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference Saturday have still not resolved …

COP15 | Over 3 million sign petition for protection of 50% of world's biodiversity
2 years ago

COP15 | Over 3 million sign petition for protection of 50% of world's biodiversity

The Hindu  

As countries iron out a deal to protect nature at the COP15 biodiversity conference here, a petition backed by 3.2 million citizens worldwide has called for a more ambitious target of at least 50% conservation and protection of lands and oceans by 2030. "We are already well beyond 30 per cent conservation of the planet, if only our governments recognise …

Governments gather in Canada in bid to boost biodiversity
2 years ago

Governments gather in Canada in bid to boost biodiversity

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Amid warnings that biodiversity is in freefall, environmental leaders will gather in Montreal to hammer out measures aimed at shoring up the world’s land and marine ecosystems and coming up with tens of billions of dollars to fund these conservation efforts. “The current state of biodiversity is dire with the loss of biodiversity at unprecedented levels in our …

'India making multi-faceted efforts for environmental conservation', says PM Modi
2 years, 6 months ago

'India making multi-faceted efforts for environmental conservation', says PM Modi

Firstpost  

Speaking at the ‘Save Soil Movement’ programme, the prime minister said the average carbon footprint of the world is about 4 tonne per person per annum compared to just about 0.5 tonne per person per annum in India Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the various campaigns launched by the Centre as part of India’s multi-faceted efforts to reduce …

Corporate control over biodiversity? That’s what this new Bill would like to see
2 years, 6 months ago

Corporate control over biodiversity? That’s what this new Bill would like to see

The Hindu  

Published : May 30, 2022 06:00 IST IN his recent book, The Nutmeg’s Curse, the author Amitav Ghosh dispels the myth that in the present time human-made goods take precedence over natural products. The Biological Diversity Act, 2002, marked a significant departure from the “command and control” approach of other environmental laws since it recognised the significant role of local …

Biodiversity protection now more pressing than ever
3 years, 2 months ago

Biodiversity protection now more pressing than ever

China Daily  

Aerial photo taken on June 7, 2021 shows wild Asian elephants in Jinning district of Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province. He underlined China's efforts to develop an "ecological civilization" in which humans and nature coexist in harmony, and he said the country would launch the $233 million Kunming Biodiversity Fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries. An index developed by …

Mobilize finance for climate, biodiversity
3 years, 2 months ago

Mobilize finance for climate, biodiversity

China Daily  

Conserving biological diversity and combating climate change are vital to the global economic value and prosperity of human beings. The deep link between climate change and biodiversity loss means that coordinated and concerted international efforts, rather than independent efforts, should be made to keep global temperature rise below to 1.5 C. In fact, combating climate change has become a global …

China pledged $233 million into a new fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries during COP15
3 years, 2 months ago

China pledged $233 million into a new fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries during COP15

Firstpost  

This pledge came as delegates from about 195 countries gathered in Kunming for the first of a two-part summit on safeguarding plants, animals and ecosystems. China on Tuesday pledged to inject $233 million into a new fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries during a key UN conservation summit, despite disagreements among major donors on the initiative. “China will take …

World Nature Conservation Day 2021: COVID-19 pandemic an urgent reminder for India to implement One Health concept
3 years, 4 months ago

World Nature Conservation Day 2021: COVID-19 pandemic an urgent reminder for India to implement One Health concept

Firstpost  

Today is World Nature Conservation Day, our annual reminder that we share the planet with millions of species of flora and fauna that we must respect and make every effort to preserve. The World Nature Conservation Day feeds into most of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. The Forest Survey of India conducted in 2019 estimates a total of 807,276 …

Green over brown: On India's climate goals
4 years ago

Green over brown: On India's climate goals

The Hindu  

India asserted at the virtual Climate Ambition Summit, co-convened by the UN to mark five years of the Paris Agreement, that it is well on its way to not just fulfilling its national pledge on emissions reduction, but exceeding the commitment. Indeed, the Emissions Gap Report 2020 of the UNEP includes India among nine G20 members who are on track …

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